An Opportunity for All

Show your best creative work and a possible way to pay off those student loans!
AIGA and I.D magazine have student design competitions going on right now.

I.D, the International Design Magazine is hosting the 2010 Annual design review.
$10,000 Cash prize!
Deadline is December1st, 2009 so get started at id-mag.com for more info.
categories for the I.D annual design review are:
consumer products
graphics
packaging
furniture
environments
equipment
interactive
concepts
student work

AIGA BlueRidge presents the Fourth Annual Flux Student Design Competition. Eligible work designed by undergraduate and graduate students between August 2008–October 2009. Freelance, Pro Bono and internship work completed by students is also eligible. Submitted work will be selected by a panel of accomplished designers. The selected entries will be displayed in Frederick, MD.

Entry Deadline: Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:00am EST

Reception: Saturday, October 24, 2009

For more information go to fluxdesigncompetition.org

Good luck to all!

Challenge yourself!

For the past couple weeks I have slowly been learning the wonderful program called illustrator. I have been using online tutorials along with help from a couple friends *cough* Josh... Michelle *cough* to better myself and my understanding of the program itself. After doing a few vectors I decided to look for "motivation". I came across a website dedicated to Graphic Design contests.


http://www.designcontest.net/index.html


They have only had 4 contests that are open for anyone to do so far which leads me to believe that this is a fairly new website. I would look around more for a launch date but it's 6:30 a.m. and pancakes await!

If you want to get paid for you designs, you can apply to be on "the team". This allows you to participate in the professional contests, and winning those get you cash in the pocket.

In order to be a team member, you must...

1. Be at least 18 years old at the time of application
2. Have an online design portfolio for us to review
3. Be a registered forum user for at least 7 days
4. Have a minimum of 10 recent forum posts
5. Be able to receive PayPal payments

IF YOU MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW.

I hope that everyone gets involved in this. I think it will help better you in your field regardless of how good you think you already are. And if you think that nobody is better than you, prove it :)